Multiline regex

[Rodrick Brown]

Slurp the entire file into a string and pick out the fields you need.

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On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Brandon Harris <brandon.harris at reelfx.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to read in and parse an ascii type file that contains information that can span several lines.
> Example:
> 
> createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_globalSmooth";
>   setAttr ".tan" 9;
>   setAttr -s 4 ".ktv[0:3]"  101 0 163 0 169 0 201 0;
>   setAttr -s 4 ".kit[3]"  10;
>   setAttr -s 4 ".kot[3]"  10;
> createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_res";
>   setAttr ".tan" 9;
>   setAttr ".ktv[0]"  103 0;
>   setAttr ".kot[0]"  5;
> createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_faceRig";
>   setAttr ".tan" 9;
>   setAttr ".ktv[0]"  103 0;
>   setAttr ".kot[0]"  5;
> 
> I'm wanting to grab the information out in chunks, so
> 
> createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_faceRig";
>   setAttr ".tan" 9;
>   setAttr ".ktv[0]"  103 0;
>   setAttr ".kot[0]"  5;
> 
> would be what my regex would grab.
> I'm currently only able to grab out the first line and part of the second line, but no more.
> regex is as follows
> 
> my_regexp = re.compile("createNode\ animCurve.*\n[\t*setAttr.*\n]*")
> 
> I've run several variations of this, but none return me all of the expected information.
> 
> Is there something special that needs to be done to have the regexp grab any number of the setAttr lines without specification?
> 
> Brandon L. Harris
> 
> 
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